US intelligence report on COVID-19 origins debunks lab leak theory.

A report by the US intelligence community found no direct evidence of a "biosafety incident" or pre-pandemic presence of COVID-19 at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. While some lab researchers fell ill in the fall of 2019, US intelligence agencies remain divided on whether the pandemic began through natural transmission or by accident. The report notes that some scientists at the institute genetically engineered coronaviruses through common practices, but there was "no information" indicating such work was done on the virus that causes COVID-19. China has consistently denied that the virus originated in the Wuhan lab.